The Highwayman: a narrative KS2 poem explored through drama Dahl Lesson 5: I don’t want

Lesson 5: I don’t want to listen to you

It is important to remember

The ten-week project is structured into five sections:

To enable students to recognise and change their own voice and speech characteristics

The Highwayman: a narrative KS2 poem explored through drama Dahl Lesson 5: I don’t wantAlfred Noyes The Highwayman is a classic poem, providing fantastic source material for drama work. Teaching poetry to KS2 pupils is not always easy, and the wonderful hook of this piece is the powerful story. Whether you view the narrative as a love story, a ghost story or a bloody tale of tragic death, there is plenty here to appeal to students imaginations, and to draw them into an interest in poetry which might be more difficult to engender through